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Increasing the World Heritage
MEXICO CITY (EFE) .- The protected area of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site yesterday, recognition which the federal government has emphasized the state of the site as an example of human adaptation to the environment.
With 19 other places, the area was chosen in the 42nd. session of the United Nations agency. Thus, Mexico is consolidated as the US country with more assets that carry this distinction.
In a statement, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources said that more than 14,000 years ago the inhabitants of the region they used irrigation systems, domesticated plants and produces salt, under various political and religious models.
In addition, he witnessed the emergence of Proto-Otamangue languages that gave birth to the oldest and most diverse linguistic family on the American continent. 19659003] Its extension is 145,255 hectares, located between Oaxaca and Puebla.
The head of the National Commission for Protected Natural Areas, Alejandro del Mazo, declared that Tehuacán-Cuicatlán is the arid zone with the greatest biodiversity of the Americas and it harbors ecosystems and species unique in the world: 70% of families of flora and 3000 species of vascular plants, of which 10% are endemic. 19659003] It also has cactus forests with gigantic barnacles that were used by humans a thousand years ago. Here are five of the six species of big cats that inhabit Mexico, including the jaguar and the cougar, and is the nesting territory of both the golden eagle and the green macaw.
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